"Her life-that was the only chance she..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?”

“A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one”

“Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square but I open my eyes and exclaim, "Good God! Here I am again!" not always with pleasure, often with pain; sometimes in a spasm.”

“Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast.”

“The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.”

“As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.”

“Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.”

“There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?”

“We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible.”